The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-19

at crossing about a mile outside Of the
city and instantly killed, together with
the horse. They were unmarried.
CHARLES BORBEIN, formerly of st. Louis,
book-keeper of the Tennessee Brewing
Company at Memphis, is in Europe, and
his accounts are said to show a shortage.
JACK BREsLIN, one Of the most noted
toughs in Orange, N. J., murderously as
saulted his wife on the night of the 10th.
Breslin is well known throughout the coun-
try as Baltimore Jack" He went home
drunk, knocked his wife down and jumped
on her, breaking three of her ribs. He
then ned, and is still at large.
SHAFT No. of the Ashland mine, near
Hurley, Wis, caved in on the 10th, killing
three men and injuring another SO badly
that he is not expected to live. The names
of the victims are Tim c. Dwyer, Steve
Meyer, John Toll and Louis Augustine.
Joseph Urban had both legs broken.
Dyer leaves a wife and five children at
Hancock, Mich, but the others are single
men.
THE residence of Henry Winsum at the
Crescent Coal works, Charleston, w. Va,
caught fire and was consumed on the 18th.
In The building were two children, aged
five and seven years respectively. The
younger jumped from the building and
was caught by its father, but the other was
burned to death. When his remains were
found they were wrapped in a lot of bed
clothes, showing that the child got into
bed to save itself.
FIRE at Brooklyn, Ia, destroyed Kings
low opera house. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance. Stober's harness-shOp building and
contents; loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. G..
Wins office; loss, $1,000; insurance, $500.
w. s. Sharp, implements; loss, $1,000; in
surance, 81 200. Roland's barber-shOp;
loss, $500; no insurance. William Craw-
ford was killed by falling building. War
rem Martin was run over by a fire engine
and was fatally injured.
ON the return trip to Detroit, Mich, of
the steamer Alaska from Put-in-Bay on
the night Of the 18th, a gang of toughs
took possession of the boat, assaulting
men, insulting women, and robbing pas
sengers without any pretense at conceal
ment, Three passengers were badly
pounded, and the crew and passengers
were so terrorized no resistance was offer
ed. On arrival in Detroit two patrol
wagons were called and eleven arrests
made.
THE Grant Powder Works, located at
West Berkely, six miles from San Fran
cisco, across the bay, exploded on the 18th.
The force of the explosion was such that
windows along the battery front in the
city were smashed, and buildings through
out the Gutiro business portion of the city
quivered to an extent that it was believed
the city had sustained heavy earthquake
shock.
LEVI HoLwIG, a miner in New Mexico,
was crushed to death on the 18th by rock
falling on him.
THE appeal of Pranzini, the murderer of
Mime. Regnault, has been rejected by the
high court of France.
Sol CONVERSE wss hanged at Hampton,
s. c., on the 18th, for the murder of Jordan
Robinson. He said his sentence was just.
FRANK WILSON was hanged at Prescott,
Ariz., on the 18th, for the murder of Sam
uel CIevenger and his wife, Charlotte, in
May, 1856, on the summit of the Buskin
mountains, a few miles from the Utah
line.
julius BUCKS, a ten-year-old son of John
Bucks, at Alma, Lafayette County, Mo-,
met with horrible death on the 18th, by
being smothered to death in grain eleva-
tor in which he was playing.
JAMES KENDRIC, laborer on the new
Capitol at Austin, Tex, was shot and seri-
Ously wounded in the head, arm and leg
on the 18th by his wife, She alleges that
he came into the house and attempted to
cut her throat with a razor.
OSCAR J. HARVEY, the forger, has been
put to work in the Albany penitentiary
under John I. West, the colored clerk in
the General Land Office, convicted of an
attempted criminal assault. West is boss
of the chair-making establishment in the
penitentiary.
A GANG of men employed on the North
western railway extension at Watersme ct,
Mich, on the 18th, sat down near newly
constructed water-tank to rest after they
had filed the tank, and it fell to pieces,
killing six men and badly injuring six
others.
RAYMOND MEYERS, living on the farm of
his father-in-law, James Mills, southeast
of Des Moines, Ia, was gored to death by
a bull on the 18TH, the horn going entirely
through his body. He lived only twenty
minutes after receiving the injury.
FIRE at the Mendoza (Wis.) insane
hospital on the 18th, destroyed the large
frame barn belonging to the institution,
100 tons of hay, eleven head of thorough
bred cattle, one fine Holstein bull, valued
at 81 1000, and nearly all the farm ma
chinery, wagons, sleighs, etc. The total
loss is $4,000, with no insurance.
THE body of a colored girl, horribly mutt
lated, was found in the woods near Frank
lin, La, on the 10th. Her stepfather, Dan
Haskins, was suspected, and as he had fed
to the woods the citizens armed them
selves and finally captured him after Sc
verelv wounding him. He confessed and
asked to be hanged. The citizens thought
his request reasonable and therefore
granted il Immediately.
AN extensive and costly conflagration
was in progress in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
morning of the 18th, in which property to
the value Of over a million dollars was in
volved, including the Masonic Hall and
buildings adjoining.